After a year of much promotion and fanfare, United Airlines and several other airlines are backing out of the new airport in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
The new airport has been open for less than 12 months, but tourists still use the airport in Cancun in record numbers.
United has scrapped one route altogether to the destination and amended two others to lower their respective frequencies. Specifically, United has dropped its route from Los Angeles to Tulum. It will also suspend flights from Newark Airport and Chicago next summer.
JetBlue Airways and American Airlines are also exiting the Tulum market. In the excitement of the new airport, the airlines had severely overestimated the popularity of the market.
In a statement, a United spokesperson said “we regularly adjust our schedule for a variety of reasons.”
One route that appears to be working is Houston to Tulum, and that will increase to twice-daily service in the summer. Those changes will start on May 22. An American Airlines flight from Charlotte to the Mexican destination will be discontinued as well.
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